Satoru Iwata, Nintendo head-honcho and chief of dropping megatons is on £500,000 a year. He can earn up to £1.4m a year thanks to performance-related bonuses. In comparison, Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer is on £3m a year. Six Nintendo board members, including absolute legend and all-round superhero Shigeru Miyamto earn £750,000 in total. Miyamoto has refused a higher salary from Nintendo.
DICE has confirmed that they will be releasing a 500MB PC patch for Battlefield Bad Company 2 tomorrow. It will hit at 1AM EST. All game servers will be going down for the four hour maintenance update. Hit up the full changelog after the jump, PC gamers.
We are very happy to be congratulating our Editor in Chief Chris Holmes on earning his degree in Journalism and Media from Coventry University. We hope he remembers the slightly complex hat tapping customs that are required when one graduates.
THQ has announced Metro 2034, a sequel to Metro 2033. It will be available in 3D thanks to the publisher saving money by developing the game in Kiev, Ukraine. Metro 2033 was released on the PC and 360, but platforms for the sequel haven’t been announced yet. It was a reasonably good shooter, but took itself a bit seriously with some rather obscure story for an equally obscure book. We Read More ...
THQ has announced their popular third-person action title, Darksiders will be coming to Windows PC on September 24th. Subtitled “Hell Book”, the PC version of Darksiders is a new special edition for Darksiders fans and PC gamers alike. This new special edition will contain art cards, comic book and even a soundtrack CD. “Deceived by the forces of evil into prematurely bringing about the end of mankind, War – the Read More ...
With the newest firmware update to go live today, Sony has also announced that the paid subscription service for online play, PlayStation Plus, has gone live. The service will cost you $49.99 and will give you all sorts of features. Don’t worry gamers, if you choose not to upgrade to the new subscription service you’ll still have free access to the PlayStation Network for online play. PlayStation Plus can be Read More ...
Eve Online developer CCP has opened a studio in Newcastle. CCP Newcastle will work with CCP Asia on the DUST 514, an upcoming console game (PS3, 360) that ties into the Eve universe. CCP Newcastle will be focused on getting increased performance from Unreal Engine 3. After they’ve got that under control, they will start work on researching technology for the next generation of consoles. The studio has been formed Read More ...
Sony has confirmed that the PlayStation 3 is now finally profitable. It might be because the Slim is made out of shoddy materials and reduces each component to its cheapest form, or people are actually buying it. Whichever it is, the reason hasn’t been confirmed. “This year is the first time that we are able to cover the cost of the PlayStation 3,” Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida said Read More ...
Interplay has confirmed that MDK2 will be ported to the Wii and that MDK2 HD will be coming to the PC. The Wii game will be a WiiWare title, and should be released this Winter. The PC version will be released sometime afterwards on the Beamdog distribution platform. Beamdog are developing both games. MDK2 was originally developed by BioWare, and it was first released on the PC and Dreamcast in Read More ...
Apple has announced that they have sold more than 1.7 million iPhone 4s between the 24th and 26th of June. However, the devices are marred by a signal problem. If users try to grip the phone in their left hand and cover up the bottom left hand corner with their palm, the 3G and Wi-Fi antennas are joined up by conductive skin and the signal reception goes a bit odd. Read More ...
Sony has announced the specifics of the upcoming new PS3 firmware, 3.40. It doesn’t include cross game chat or 3D Blu-Ray support, but it does have some interesting new free things for everyone. It should go live “soon”, which normally translates as 6am UK time but obviously that isn’t set in stone. Have a look after the jump for a list (with actual pictures) of what to expect.
Capcom has announced that more downloadable content is coming to Lost Planet 2 at the end of July. The content includes a new Rush Arena mode, where you and three chums can fight against every boss in the game consecutively. The content also includes a new Post Modern skin, which is available to be selected immediately in multiplayer, but can only be unlocked for the story mode by completing the Read More ...
Media Create has unveiled last week’s sales numbers. Here’s the hardware numbers: DS (All varieties) – 53,523 PSP – 21,766 Wii – 19,045 PS3 – 17,175 360 – 2062 PS2 – 1568 Here’s the top 10 from the game chart: 1. Super Mario Galaxy 2. Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective 3. Art Academy 4. Xenoblade 5. Grand Theft Auto IV: Episodes from Liberty City 6. Tamagotchi no Pichi Pichi Omisecchi 7. Read More ...
This week Nintendo has offered up quite a batch of games for Wii owners and DSi Owners alike. Seems like they’ve realized we’ve been begging for more games thanks to the summer season kicking off. We have a highlight in that of Mario Tennis from the Nintendo 64 days that introduced Waluigi to the world. Check out the full list below….
Raven Software are an odd bunch. They crank out games at a good pace, but all their titles seem to miss that little bit of polish or spark that could shift them into a different light. One example of this is Quake 4. It was playable, but it just didn’t feel right and ultimately it failed to match up to the Quake name. Following that, they made Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, Read More ...
